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laissez-faire


Definition of laissez-faire

noun

[mass noun, usually as modifier]
  • the policy of leaving things to take their own course, without interfering:a laissez-faire attitude to life
  • Economics abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market:laissez-faire capitalism

Derivatives

laissez-faireism

noun

Origin:

French, literally 'allow to do'

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